Butler v. American Toy Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit for money lent and advanced; brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County. The defendants were described in the writ as “The American Toy Company, a partnership doing business in this state and in the city of New York, and consisting of The J. & E. Stevens Company, a corporation duly organized and established and located in the town of Cromwell in this state, and George W. Brown & Company, another partnership, consisting of George' W. Brown, of Bristol, and…
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Assumpsit for money lent and advanced; brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County. The defendants were described in the writ as “The American Toy Company, a partnership doing business in this state and in the city of New York, and consisting of The J. & E. Stevens Company, a corporation duly organized and established and located in the town of Cromwell in this state, and George W. Brown & Company, another partnership, consisting of George' W. Brown, of Bristol, and Mrs. Julia T. Goodrich, of Plainville, in this state, a married woman, but doing business in her own name and for the…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
The great question in this case is, whether the charter of the J. & E. Stevens Company by necessary intendment authorized that corporation to continue the business of the American Toy Company as it was then conducted, and had been conducted from its organization. If it. gave *145this authority, and the business was so continued, then it will he clear that the J. & E. Stevens Company were bound by the acts of the American Toy Company to the same extent precisely as the J. & E. Stevens Company had been previously bound; and the case will be the same that it would have been if Waters had not died…
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